April 16, 2019
Dr. Roger Turner, Science History Institute presents, "Why are there so few women in the history of science?"
Women have contributed to science and technology throughout history. But it often takes specialized skills and new ways of seeing to find the scientific work they did. Sometimes women were given codenames when research was published, a 17th century strategy to protect their modesty. Sometimes tedious lab work was celebrated as “heroic” when done by men, and dismissed as “drudgery” when done by women. Or scientific organizations might divide up the labor of science, assigning some tasks to women and other tasks to men, and then not talk about the women’s roles—as in the story of Hidden Figures. This talk will explore how we can recover the history of women in science, and why we must do it now.
Further information
- Location: Rector Science Complex, Stafford Auditorium
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Cost: Free